Experience Details:
Experiencer: 44 year old navy sailor.
Difficult Situation Before Experience: Wife dies next to him in navy hospital cabin.Experience Report:
Difficult Situation (
Wife Dying)
“...Gradually I became aware that my wife would not survive. Probably I deduced this from the bland pap and evasions that were all I could elicit by my questions concerning her welfare. I do not now remember whether it was before or after her death that an…
Feels Safe and 
Loved, Compassionate
“an incredible sense of security crept over me. It was a sense of being loved and cherished.” “[as if it was] God himself who was surrounding me with his compassion.” “Later a Surgeon Captain remarked upon my euphoria while I was in the hospital and I had no objection to make to his term.”
Bright Light (
Golden) (Surrounded By It)
“I heard nothing, yet it was as if I were surrounded by golden light and as if I only had to reach out my hand to touch God himself who was surrounding me with his compassion.”
Others Partially Feel It Too In Place Where Experience Occured, Even Months Afterward
“Later a Surgeon Captain remarked upon my euphoria while I was in the hospital and I had no objection to make to his term.
I think, nevertheless, that my experience was not wholly subjective for many people sensed something in my cabin and the rumor that something special was happening got around the Fleet.
Months later, moreover, a Scottish Medical Officer — considerably worse for drink – demanded that I should ‘show him God’. He said, ‘You’ve got Him. I know it. He was in your cabin in the hospital. Day after day I felt him there’. I am certain that at no time had I mentioned my feeling to him.”